How to change your oil

Changing the oil of a car is a fairly simple process when directed correctly. I hope that you are able to easily follow the steps that I lay out for you.

Step 1 Step one

In order to easily change the oil of your car you first should drive the car around until it warms up or at least turn the car on for ten minutes. This way the oil will easily flow and make the entire process much easier for you.

Comments

[admin]

This project looks awesome but there isn't enough documentation of you actually making it to be a full Instructable. There are two things which you could do. 1) If you happen to have images of you making your project you can create some more steps, add those additional photos into your Instructable and then republish your Instructable. 2) If you don't have any more pictures of you working on your project, that's ok too. That just means that your project is better suited to be submitted as a slideshow. Your images are already in your library, and you can use the same text that you have already written for your Instructable so it should only take a few minutes to create your slideshow and show the world what you made! Thanks for your submission and let me know if you have any questions along the way.

[winston_smith]

One of those 'should be self explanatory' things, but you don't remind people to put the drain plug back in. ^_

[Derin]

oh so thats why i found loads of new oil on the floor...

[lasersage]

anyone who hasn't changed there oil before should: have a load of kitchen roll/rags on hand, no matter how careful you are it always trys to spill. beware the hot oil, engine only needs a couple of mins warming to reduce viscosity, try it after any longer and you risk burns. Gloves are handy, again its tricky not to spill. When removing the oil filter it will still be full of oil and generally mounts sideways, so as soon as you remove it there will be a spill, rags ready? Finally you may need more purchase to get the oil filter off, hands can sometimes shift 'em, in an ideal world we'd all have filter wrenches but if you have a new oil filter you may as well stab the old one with a screwdriver and twist it off that way (can be messy though). Similarly if the sump plug wont budge you're better off putting an old scaffold bar or pipe on your wrench than bashing it. You get more torque on it that way, bashing it risks shearing things and rounding nuts. A new copper washer should be fitted on replacing the sump plug, and the plug itself should be wiped as they often have a magnet to attract particles. Going under a manky car? looking upwards? WEAR GOGGLES, mud in the eye is never fun.